Network-Based Parallel Computing. Communication, Architecture, and Applications [electronic resource] : Second International Workshop, CANPC'98, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 31 - February 1, 1998, Proceedings /

The remote enqueue operation on networks of workstations -- The HAL interconnect PCI card -- Implementing protected multi-user communication for Myrinet -- ECOLE: A configurable environment for a local optical network of workstations -- The design of a parallel programming system for a network of workstations: An object-oriented approach -- Remote subpaging across a fast network -- Improved functional imaging through network based parallel processing -- AutoMap and AutoLink tools for communicating complex and dynamic data-structures using MPI -- Analysis of a programmed backoff method for parallel processing on Ethernets -- Improving dynamic token-based distributed synchronization performance via optimistic broadcasting -- Fast barrier synchronization on shared fast Ethernet -- Parallel routing table computation for scalable IP routers -- A tool for the analysis of reconfiguration and routing algorithms in irregular networks -- Real-time traffic management on optical networks using dynamic control of cycle duration -- A comparative characterization of communication patterns in applications using MPI and shared memory on an IBM SP2 -- Characterization of communication patterns in message-passing parallel scientific application programs -- Cross-platform analysis of fast messages for Myrinet -- Performance of a cluster of PCI based ultrasparc workstations interconnected with SCI.

This book constitutes the strictly refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Communication and Architectural Support for Network-Based Parallel Computing, CANPC'98, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in January/February 1998. The 18 revised full papers presented were selected from 38 submissions on the basis of four to five reviews per paper. The volume comprises a representative compilation of state-of-the-art solutions for network-based parallel computing. Several new interconnection technologies, new software schemes and standards are studied and developed to provide low-latency and high-bandwidth interconnections for network-based parallel computing.